Opportunity for Health
@OppforHealthLab
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We study how economic opportunity affects health, and identify policies that can boost opportunity and improve health for all Americans.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined August 2020
RT @PennPARC: RT @OppforHealthLab "Policies can affect our #health by shaping and transmitting social narratives and affect people's #belie….
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Public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by mechanisms that are independent of any effects on resources and opportunities.
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RT @NEJM: The authors of a new Perspective write that public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by….
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Policies can affect our #health by shaping and transmitting social narratives and affect people's #beliefs about their current and future status -- independent of any impacts they have on material circumstances. See our new #paper in @NEJM: .
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Public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by mechanisms that are independent of any effects on resources and opportunities.
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RT @PennLDI: In the @NEJM, LDI Fellow Atheendar Venkataramani and colleagues explore how the discussion surrounding public policies—regardl….
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A new NEJM piece written by Atheendar Venkataramani explores how public discussion of policies can impact population health, particularly for marginalized groups.
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RT @PennPSC: "Speak clearly and listen first.". Atheendar Venkataramani unpacks why clear, relatable, two-way communication is at the heart….
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RT @caroartc: We thought health shocks through caregiving in couples would hurt labor outcomes. In the Dutch system, they didn’t. What we d….
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RT @instrumenthull: Our paper on modeling and measuring systemic discrimination is out in the @QJEHarvard this month! . Check it out (ungat….
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RT @nberpubs: Providing the first causal evidence on how occupational wage inequality undermines the labor movement, using three complement….
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RT @NEJM: As health systems confront the social, economic, and political drivers underlying worsening U.S. population health, a new Perspec….
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RT @LSEHealthPolicy: Why do health inequalities persist + and what would it take to truly close the gap? ⚖️. Join LSE Health for an engagin….
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RT @NEJMEvidence: “In the clinical context, researchers may wish to leverage natural experiments to estimate the causal impact of a particu….
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RT @nberpubs: No impact is found for a monthly unconditional cash transfer on preregistered child development outcomes among 4 year olds am….
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RT @JHSPH_CMAP: 🎉 Congrats to @andrew_andersn & @CatherineEttman receiving a Nexus Research Award for CLIMB Higher: Addressing Mental Heal….
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RT @UPenn_CCEB: Speaker highlight from session II: .Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD on The American Dream and America's Health #CCEB #Upen….
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RT @zbleemer: New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960. What is to blame?….
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RT @pedrohcgs: 🚨New paper alert🚨. My paper with @marcelortizv on "Better Understanding Triple Differences Estimators" is finally out. 📰 ht….
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RT @PennLDI: What does it take for hospitals to be more than health care providers?. At our recent seminar, experts explored how health sys….
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A Penn LDI seminar explores the latest developments and trends in Health Systems functioning as anchor institutes in their communities
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Upcoming talk at @VanderbiltU! On Feb 10, @atheendar will present at Health Policy Grand Rounds with a talk titled: "Unstuck: Reversing the U.S. Life Expectancy Decline." 🎤📊.
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🚨 Happening today! @atheendar will be presenting "Political Power and Population Health: Heterogeneous Effects of the U.S. Voting Rights Act," a joint project with Lizzie Bair (@PennMEHP) and Rourke O’Brien (Yale). A must-see at the @Yale School of Public Health!.
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Read more on how differential covariate classification (DCC) can improve prediction:
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A common practice in evidence-based decision-making uses estimates of conditional probabilities P(y|x) obtained from research studies to predict outcomes y on the basis of observed covariates x....
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